GTK+ 3.2 Is Gold With Wayland, HTML5, Etc

With the official release of GNOME 3.2 coming later in the week, Red Hat's Matthias Clasen has christened the official version of the GTK+ 3.2 tool-kit. GTK+ 3.2 brings several interesting features since the inaugural GTK+3 release earlier in the year.

For those that missed the earlier Phoronix articles talking about GTK+ 3.2 developments, among the interesting items are:

- An experimental back-end for the Wayland Display Server, but it's still very much a work-in-progress.

- An HTML5 "Broadway" back-end that allows rendering of GTK applications in modern HTML5 web-browsers.

- Many CSS theming improvements, including width-for-height support in many more widgets.

- Re-designs to the GtkFileChooser and GtkAssistant widgets.

- GtkFontSelection has been replaced by a set of new GtkFontChooser widgets.

- There's new GtkLockButton and GtkOverlay widgets too, among other work.

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